TJX hacking Suspect arrested in New Delhi, India

May 14, 2010

IDG news has reported that a Ukrainian national , Sergey Valeryevich Storchark accused of helping to hack into nine US retailers and
making off with data for millions of credit cards has been arrested earlier this week in New Delhi , India.
In January, 2007 TJX  Companies Inc, reported an incident of major breach of CCN and [...]

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What is USB rubber ducky attack?

May 13, 2010

USB rubber ducky is a smart device which can emulate a keyboard or a mouse when connected to a computer and can execute a pre programmed instructions.
An example will be, opening the command prompt on windows and then flushing your DNS cache, within a flick of a second which will be absolutely difficult to notice. [...]

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US Defense partially lifts ban on USB devices but, at what cost?

February 25, 2010

USB ports today are universal gateways for data transfer . If your security policy says , block it completely, this is what is going to happen:-
Gradually you end up opening ports one by one. Sometimes you remember to block it back once you purposed for opening it is solved, and sometimes you just forget about [...]

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How to register a new USB device in uHook?

August 6, 2009

After you have successfully installed the uHook USB Disk Security. Restart the machine. From now on any unauthorized USB can not be used to copy files from your machine unless set in the policy, which is under your control. If you wish to register a usb device, just insert it and a prompt will come [...]

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How to uninstall uhook usb disk security?

August 6, 2009

Just after the release of uHook USB Disk Security v2.2, we got many queries regarding how to uninstall the software.We have clearly mentioned on the product’s website that, this release of uHook USB Disk Security will have tamper protection against malicious users as well administrators from uninstalling the application. Even if  a user with administrative [...]

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USB Security

August 6, 2009

Blocking usb drives has become a serious concern for the people now, because it might lead to some serious data losses and breach of privacy along with bringing in lot of viruses and worms, which love to spread through USB drives because of windows autorun.inf problem. 
autorun.inf viruses uses the autorun feature of microsoft Windows to [...]

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Ben and his little Data Loss Accident

August 4, 2009

Read the story of an IT administrator about how he went through the experience of accidental Data Loss

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Bank account frauds – Hacking or End Point Data Loss?

July 27, 2009

The recent theft of money from the bank account of a Kolkata Trader shows clearly that loss of critical data is as critical as losing money.
From the words of times of India:-
“On June 24, someone who goes by the name Praveen Rai walked out of two branch offices of State Bank of India in Mumbai, [...]

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Phishing+Spamming = Phishpaming

June 24, 2009

Few months back i got an email from an unknown user . There was a hyperlink in the email and the sender  wanted to have friendship with me. The sender wrote that her photograph is available on the following link. This was crazy, because of two reasons:-
1. Why would an unknown person send me her [...]

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uHook USB Disk Security V2.2 Released!

June 16, 2009

Data Resolve Technologies today released the third version of world’s most powerful USB Security, Control and Monitoring program called uHook USB Disk Security 2.2. With over 17000 downloads now, uHook USB Disk Security was listed as one of the best security products in PCQUEST, May, 2009 issue.
With increasing usage of different kinds of USB storage [...]

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